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cadman · 02-28-2007, 01:45 AM

I am looking for some advice/suggestions/opinions.
Getting right to the point here is my situation- I have been recently laid off from my job and the current job market is not lending itself to my needs. So my plans are to make lemonade from the lemon-like circumstances. I have 17+ years in the automotive industry working my way up from a machine operator to a general plant manager/engineering manager of a tier 1 automotive supplier. BTW-have wife n 3 little ones. My desire is to start my own fixture and tooling design business based on the fact that #1 it's my area of expertise and #2 I really love what i am good at--thank god, #3 I already have the equipment and software. I would also like to start a blog that aids others with cad related issues. As far as the design and engineering goes, I have a very limited number of contacts that have the authority to contract out work, so building a client base is a priority. I need some advice on the whole self employed business startup for both the cad and blog arenas. Does anyone think that a blog that provided cad resources and discussion would be a good idea, or should it be left to the magazines that have them. Any suggestion are greatly appreciated to help motivate me--funds are gettin low quick, depression is on the horizon, and I think this series of events might be the push in the direction that I have always thought about but never took the action to do.

02-28-2007, 01:45 AM	#1 (permalink)
cadman Member Join Date: Feb 2007 Posts: 36	Need direction I am looking for some advice/suggestions/opinions. Getting right to the point here is my situation- I have been recently laid off from my job and the current job market is not lending itself to my needs. So my plans are to make lemonade from the lemon-like circumstances. I have 17+ years in the automotive industry working my way up from a machine operator to a general plant manager/engineering manager of a tier 1 automotive supplier. BTW-have wife n 3 little ones. My desire is to start my own fixture and tooling design business based on the fact that #1 it's my area of expertise and #2 I really love what i am good at--thank god, #3 I already have the equipment and software. I would also like to start a blog that aids others with cad related issues. As far as the design and engineering goes, I have a very limited number of contacts that have the authority to contract out work, so building a client base is a priority. I need some advice on the whole self employed business startup for both the cad and blog arenas. Does anyone think that a blog that provided cad resources and discussion would be a good idea, or should it be left to the magazines that have them. Any suggestion are greatly appreciated to help motivate me--funds are gettin low quick, depression is on the horizon, and I think this series of events might be the push in the direction that I have always thought about but never took the action to do.